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The Falls
19911 h 29 min 15 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Kevin McMahon
Production: Michael McMahonBrian DennisJohn TaylorGeorge FlakClare Odgers
Script: Kevin McMahon
Produced by Primitive Features Inc. in association with the NFB and the Ontario Film Development Corporation, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council and Channel Four, London.
For 300 years, Niagara Falls has been an icon of the North American landscape. It is now also one of the world's most toxic waterways. Here, 25 percent of the world's fresh water supply is being systematically poisoned, but the 11 million people who visit every year seldom notice. Intimate in its detail, and irreverent in its approach, The Falls is an offbeat portrait of this landscape--too wild to be classified as a documentary, too true to be fiction.
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Subject categories
- Environment and Conservation > PollutionRecycling and Waste DisposalSocial and Industrial Development
Credits
- director
- Kevin McMahon
- script
- Kevin McMahon
- producer
- Michael McMahon
- Brian Dennis
- John Taylor
- executive producer
- George Flak
- Clare Odgers
- photography
- Douglas Koch
- sound
- Brian Avery
- editing
- Michael McMahon
- sound editing
- Steve Munro
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- Adrian Croll
- narrator
- Rita McMahon
- music
- Kurt Swinghammer